Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ride of the Navajos. His son, William Blankenship Jr., was 15: a handsome, blond six-footer who played football, did well in Mount St. Michael Academy, wanted to go to the Air Force Academy. He was walking to an evening movie with a friend when a gang of leather-jacketed toughs called the Navajos swarmed around, yelling: "Do you live around here? Aren't you in the Golden Guineas?" The Navajos and Golden Guineas are rival gangs; young Bill Blankenship belonged to neither. "I don't know what you're talking about," he said...
...point that thing at me," snapped Blankenship, bristling. The pistol was snatched by another member of the gang, Frank Santana, 17, a dark, undersized youth who yelled at his buddies: "Don't chicken...
...Senate Judiciary subcommittee on refugee problems, New Yorker Corsi loudly played to the hilt the role of a martyred champion of refugees who are seeking to enter the U.S. The refugee act. he said, became a "national scandal" because of the way it was administered by "a security gang" led by Robert W. Scott McLeod, the State Department's security director. Cried Corsi: "The administration of the act is wholly dominated by the psychology of security. Refugees are investigated to death . . . The investigation, the police job, is the thing, not the admission of refugees. That is just incidental...
...Gang" v. "Team." After it echoed around Capitol Hill and the nation's press, Corsi's "security gang" label began to sizzle. At the next day's committee hearing. Indiana's Republican Senator William Jenner shouted at Corsi: "You used strong language here yesterday. You said Mr. McLeod heads a 'security gang.' I want to tell Mr. McLeod that he is doing a good job, and that won't be the last time he's called something like that. Anybody who does a good security job can expect to be smeared with...
Scott McLeod was "amazed and astonished" by Corsi's testimony. Back on the witness stand, he told the subcommittee: "I had no intimation of any personal ill will while Mr. Corsi was in the department. I resent the vituperative appellation of 'security gang.' It's not a gang; it is the Eisenhower team. I believe in it. and that...